Oscars! With Live Updates!

8:40:

Great show! End of updates.

8:37:

The Artist! Good choice, great film! And the dog is there! :)

8:33:

Haha. Tom Cruise.

8:29:

Oh thank goodness. My wife would likely have pouted for days had Meryl Streep not won.

8:15:

I want to be Jean Dujardin's friend. And the dog, too. I want to be the dog's friend.

8:08:

Always love the montages...be they of movies of the past or people who recently died.

7:57:

New word: "gobsmacked"

7:44:

Joann, earlier: Kristen Wiig acts like a 15-year-old girl, all the time. But without being obnoxious.

7:40:

Joann thinks the father-daughter team accepting for short film is sweet. I think so too. But Joann said it first.

7:33:

Screenplay awards to films we both saw and enjoyed! You have our validation, Academy.

7:18:

Very disappointed by the lack of live Best Original Song performances...one of the best parts usually! Really wanted to see "Man or Muppet." But yay for the win.

7:01:

Hard to believe it's Christopher Plummer's first win. And given the speed with which he ran up the stairs, he might live to have several more chances.

6:53:

First fashion fight of the night. Joann is pro-Emma Stone's outfit, I'm anti-.

6:46:

Haha. Great Chris Rock rant about the ease of voice acting.

6:37:

"What?" and "Wow!" coming out of our mouths right now, repeatedly.

6:30:

Ok, MUST see Hugo.

6:26:

Bradley Cooper: Yeah.

6:25:

LOL. Most awkward acceptance speech ever by winners for film editing for Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

6:20:

The Christopher Guest crew!

6:13:

Bummer. Joann was pulling for Melissa McCarthy.

6:07:

Both of us a little shocked by how tinny people are sounding. You'd think as big of a production as this is, they'd be on top of the mic situation.

6:00:

Morgan Freeman wearing a baseball cap! Cognitive dissonance!

5:57:

Joann: Cameron Diaz looks beautiful; and then she opens her mouth.

5:47:

We're feeling a little uninformed now, having not seen Hugo.

5:43:

Matt's new call in life: seatfilling!

5:32:

Joann's vote (not prediction) for best picture: Tree of Life (2nd: The Descendants)

Matt's vote (not prediction) for best picture: The Artist (2nd: The Descendants)

5:30:

We've seen The Artist, Tree of Life, Moneyball, The Descendants, The Help, and Midnight in Paris. Have not yet seen Hugo, War Horse, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

4:57:

Matt: Who are you wearing, babe?

Joann: Old Navy, George Fox, Audrey Johnson, and THS.

4:41

Joann: New word..."peplum."

Oh the anticipation...